That is very useful feedback. Specially the message boxes being annoying is something to take to the drawing table.
I want to reply to a few of your statements:
- Hoeing, watering and fertilizing does increase the output. Each action puts +1 in the output of the plant. You can do 4 actions per plant, meaning +4 if you did them all. You will harvest 5 fruits per plant. If you wear the lucky undies AND you have your bunny rabbit bonus, which both doubles the output, you harvest 20 fruits per plant per round.
- Animals felt meh? Yeah, you're right. Animals were kind of there at first to make it more of a farm. To have something to buy. I mean, you need a reason to make money, right? You say it's nice they don't need any upkeep, but I didn't even think about that! That is a great idea. :p
- Recipes interface in weird. Actually all the menu stuff looks weird. That is mainly because items and equipment are natively meant for battle purposes. Not for farming. I don't use any state or something, but windows like the shop window is designed to show those stats.
- Yes you find any fish in any pool. You do have to move spots though, because you run out of fish.
- Yes there is a notification saying your rod breaks. And it is twice in the store, because you can either pay for it with 120 gold, or 1 golden carp.
- The animal cooldown... Now that's a tough one. The animal cooldown is calculated at the moment you interact with it. I can however redesign it to work like the pishing ponds, but that would mean more parallel events running on the map at the same time. The problem is that when you have a full farm, all the activity at once is causing lag. Even though most events just run a single check every few seconds, it would mean the game freezes a moment every few seconds, if I have to many of those running at the same time. I've heard this complaint before and I am thinking of a solution.
- Pace of interaction is great feedback. I'll look into it.
And this:
- I understand that you finally feel like you've seen it all and stopped playing. The targeted time was 1 hour for me. I, who know exactly how to go to the next stage the quickest, exploiting all the glitches, take an hour to complete all the farming quests (not the fishing quests though...) So, if you've played over an hour, you've probably have seen everything. I'm glad you've enjoyed it for so long. I will def. see what I can do to make more game play after the first hour.
- Yeah, I didn't think of giving mom a bed. But it is FarmBOY, not Farmman, so that totally justifies l iving with his mom, I guess. :p And if you live with your mom, she washes your undies. :p
Thank you so much for your inclusive feedback. It's very useful and I always enjoy hearing people enjoyed my games. I'm glad you didn't find any mayor bug, other than annoyances with the dialogue and the HUD.